Yellowstone : a wilderness besieged

Author(s)

• Bartlett, Richard A.

Bibliographic Information

Yellowstone : a wilderness besieged

Richard A. Bartlett

University of Arizona Press, c1985

• : pbk.

Note

Bibliography: p. 399-418

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"A detailed, well documented history of the extablishment (in 1872), growth, and maturation of Yellowstone National Park . . . America's (and the world's) first national park." --Wildlife Book Review "Without question the best and most thought-provoking volume on America's first national park that has been written in the last half-century." --Journal of the West "Broad ranging, informative, thoughtful, and simply fun to read." --Western Historical Quarterly ..".written in warm and human terms. It documents that good can triumph over greed, that man himself can overcome his tendency toward exploitation and follow his better self toward conservation and concern." --USA Today

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA29731486
• ISBN:
  • 0816510989
• LCCN: 85000988
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Tucson, Ariz.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 437 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F722
  • DC19 : 978.7/52
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Yellowstone National Park -- History